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What's Your Problem?

Every week on What's Your Problem?, former Planet Money host Jacob Goldstein talks with entrepreneurs and engineers tackling the biggest challenges at the forefront of technology. How do you make a trip to space as routine as a plane flight? How do you turn solar energy into clean fuel? How do you use AI to stop deadly infections before they spread? We hear a lot these days about how the world is getting worse. What's Your Problem? learns from the thinkers and doers trying to make our future better. iHeartMedia is the exclusive podcast partner of Pushkin Industries.

Episodes

Fusion energy represents a transformative leap for humanity, yet achieving commercial viability requires overcoming immense engineering and economic barriers. Greg Piefer, CEO of Shine, advocates for a pragmatic, incremental strategy that prioritizes immediate revenue-generating applications over the long-term goal of ...

Can Robots Fix Recycling?

19 Jun 2025

32m

Warlords, Espionage, and Disinformation | Introducing Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

17 Jun 2025

38m

Inside the Mind of an AI Model

12 Jun 2025

43m

Teaching Robots How to Do Everything

05 Jun 2025

37m

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Developing a general-purpose AI model for robotics requires overcoming the inherent complexity of physical motor skills and a significant lack of training data. Unlike large language models that benefit from the vast, pre-existing internet, robots lack a massive repository of physical interaction data. Chelsea Finn, a ...